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1. S.Korean teen swimmer reaches next level in promising career with World Championships silver 2. BTS achieves sixth No. 1 debut on Billboard 200 with 'Proof' 3. Tom Cruise thanks Korean fans, says there was “tremendous amount of pressure” making Top Gun sequel

1. South Korean takes gold medal in ‘Olympics of Piano,’ finals of Cliburn competition 2. KCC releases app that notifies parents of possible digial sex crimes 3. Early vacationers head to the beaches and mountains as summer heat sets in

1. Swimming pools along Han River to reopen for the first time in 3 years 2. Seoul queer culture festival to resume for the first time since 2019 3. LG Household installs playground for endangered otters at Han River

1. Government okays taxi sharing service, but only for passengers of same gender 2. Incheon launches sunset guided double-decker bus tours 3. Hong Kong's famed floating restaurant is sunk by Covid-19, towed away after half a century

1. Seoul ranks 10th best city for startup ecosystem in 2022 Startup Genome report 2. Netflix announces real-life Squid Games with the biggest cash prize ever 3. BTS is going on a break but promises to return

1. Korean golf wear market enjoys boom driven by MZ generation 2. Beach businesses booming as pandemic restrictions lifted 3. Cow in Hapcheon gives birth to rare triplet cows

1. ‘The Roundup’ becomes 1st film to surpass 10 million moviegoers since 2019 2. Bots delete accounts of 30 instagram users with same name as celebrities 3. Canada, in a world first, proposes health warnings on individual cigarettes

1. Seoul is the world’s 10th most expensive city 2. Aviation industry faces criticisms for poor inflight service post-Covid 3. Patent office cracks down on unauthorized use of celebrities’ faces and names

1. S.Korea’s beloved TV host Song Hae dies at 95 2. President Yoon posthumously awards top cultural order to late Song Hae 3. Large polar bear appears on a billboard in downtown Seoul

1. Seoul City to sell naming rights for bus stops and subway stations 2. Duty-free shops see customers return as tourism normalizes 3. Online shopping platform creates ‘11 Kitties’ pop group in a bid to promote animal adoption

1. Washington, D.C. to legislate Kimchi Day 2. Psy under fire for summer concert that will 'waste' 300 tons of drinking water per show 3. Over 33 tons of trash collected from 4 mountains in Nepal

1.Choi Ha-young becomes first Korean cellist to win prestigious Queen Elisabeth Competition 2. Rain to perform at Cheong Wa Dae 3. Tom Cruise is coming to South Korea

1. Thousands gather to salute Queen Elizabeth as Platinum Jubilee celebrations begin  2. Seoul City holds ‘book talks’ in June to bring together celebrated writers and readers  3. Iconic Korean dish featured on long-running Spanish cooking show, boasts 15% viewership rating

1. Weeks-long defamation court battle between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard comes to an end as jury reaches verdict 2. BTS draws massive crowd to White House press briefing ahead of meeting with Biden 3. Yoga and meditation program coming to Busan’s Haeundae Beach

1. BTS' Jungkook deletes all Instagram posts hours before White House visit 2. Digitally resurrected late-comedian appears in 2022 remake of iconic anti-smoking PSA 3. Moms are pumping breast milk to help other moms as formula shortage continues

1. Brazilian football team checks out the sights in Seoul ahead of soccer friendly 2. S. Korean violinist Yang In-mo becomes first Korean to win prestigious Sibelius competition 3. Flight attendants no longer required to wear protective suits on international routes

1. Song Kang Ho makes history at Cannes Film Festival by winning Best Actor + Park Chan-wook wins Best Director 2. Beloved Winnie the Pooh characters featured in horror film as they enter Public Domain 3. Koreans return to noraebang amid lifted restrictions

1. BTS are headed to the White House to discuss anti-Asian hate crimes 2. Supreme Court upholds Seungri’s 18-month jail sentence 3. University festivals are back in full swing

1. Park Chan-wook’s ‘Decision to Leave’ premieres at Cannes, receives positive media reviews 2. CNN predicts makgeolli could be part of Korea’s “soft power” riding the wave of global expansion 3. Ken Rhee’s latest social media post shows he has returned to Korea from Ukraine

1. BLACKPINK is on the cover of Rolling Stone 2. Seoul Sillim Line opens this week, cuts down travel time from Yeouido to Seoul National Univ. to 16 minutes 3. Last call: NYC bids farewell to its last public pay phone

1. President Yoon Suk-yeol among TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2022 2. Night markets in Seoul set to reopen after 2 years 3. S. Korea's first lunar probe named ‘Danuri’

1. Korean food, inspired by royal court cuisine, served at banquet for U.S. president 2. Yoon and first lady gift Biden with traditional scholar’s desk and vanity 3. Taxi driver recognized for going above and beyond to return lost wallet to its owner

1. 'The World of Tim Burton' in Seoul turns the DDP Burtonesque 2. Accidentally Wes Anderson Exhibit Underway in Seoul 3. South Korean tech companies introduce three-day work week

1. Increasing number of S.Korean children quit elementary and middle school to ‘learn what they like’ 2. Newly planted palm trees on Gangneung beaches draw criticism  3. African Youtube creators gain traction by 'singing' video messages in Korean

1. Cyber diplomatic group launches campaign in a bid to correctly change the name of S.Korean islands on Google Maps 2. Seoul City's suicide prevention kit wins iF Design Award 2022 3. Veteran entertainer Song Hae considering leaving 'National Singing Contest'